Comments on: What I’m reading: Journey, The Tick

By: Dunc

Dunc — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:32:23 +0000

I’m reading the original Hawkworld miniseries which is GREAT.
Why oh why hasn’t this been collected?

By: TimCallahan

TimCallahan — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 02:22:39 +0000

Still just hugs!

And maybe a scissor kick.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 23:59:13 +0000

Now you’re really going to punch me the next time you see me, aren’t you?

By: TimCallahan

TimCallahan — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 22:50:06 +0000

You steal my idea AND get more replies?

You know what I’m reading? ALL YOUR REPLIES.

Me = Jealous

By: Tom from West Chester

Tom from West Chester — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:35:15 +0000

I’m reading 1421: the Year the Chinese Discovered America by Gavin Menzies (even though I know the theory and his “scholarship” has been roundly debunked) and volume one of the Kirby Fourth World omnibii.

By: Salamurai

Salamurai — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:08:12 +0000

I’m in the Volume zero of Fantastic Four Visionaries: John Byrne. it’s fun, and it reminded me that I haven’t read Marvel Team-Up in a long time.

I intend to jack myself out and spend part of my weekend re-reading Watchmen.

By: Rhod

Rhod — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 20:00:06 +0000

Currently re-reading Essential Uncanny X-Men vol 1, and Mutant X, and also reading for the first time some mid-90s Cable that I picked up in a back issue bin (consider me a masochist if you like).

I also recently re-read the first 6 or so issues of the Tick, and am thinking about continuing with that – one of my all-time faves.

By: Glen Newman

Glen Newman — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:26:47 +0000

Like many, I’m currently re-reading Watchmen before it comes out next week and just starting on the Bone One Volume Edition

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:20:01 +0000

Juisarian: Good to see someone else is reading Rex Mundi. It’s my favorite comic.

Mike: The Surrogates movie is coming out in October, so you’re timely. I read Moore’s Lamb and enjoyed it. I’ve been reading reviews that say Fool is wildly uneven. But I might check it out at some point.

By: Mike Loughlin

Mike Loughlin — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 14:04:38 +0000

I just finished reading The Surrogates (which I liked), and Final Crisis in one sitting (it works a lot better that way).

Currently, I’m 2/3 of the way through Fool by Christopher Moore. For those unfamiliar with his writing, his books are funny, with fantasy elements (demons, vampires, etc.), kind of like an American Terry Pratchet.

Journey is one of my favorite comics. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

By: Juisarian

Juisarian — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 07:01:47 +0000

I actually just finished re-reading Imajica last week, it still holds up. Currently reading REX MUNDI, an epic conspiracy adventure through 20th century alternative history European esoteric occult politics. Jesuits and Freemasons and Inquisitors oh my!

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:47:05 +0000

I’ll just repeat what I said over at Tim’s blog, because I’m a lazy, lazy man:

Finally finished my long reading of The Joke’s Over by Ralph Steadman… mostly because I began it, read a bunch and then set it aside. It had its moments, but, much like Hunter Thompson’s writing, it sagged during the late 70s through the early ’90s.

Began rereading Kingdom of Fear by Thompson, which I read when it first came out and not since. Pretty decent.

Had a wonderful experience reading Fantagraphics’ Sam’s Strip collection for reviewing purposes.

Reread Skreemer by Peter Milligan, Bret Ewins and Steve Dillon, and like it more this time (and I liked it a lot the first time I read it).

By: Tom Fitzpatrick

Tom Fitzpatrick — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:27:14 +0000

Me?
I’m currently re-reading the critically acclaimed graphic novel of all time, the Watchmen, refreshing my memories, in preparation of “watch”-ing the movie.

By: Oz the Malefic

Oz the Malefic — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 04:10:51 +0000

Just finished volume 4 of “Y: The Last Man”

Reading (slowly) the first volume of “Casanova”

By: Da Fug

Da Fug — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 03:39:40 +0000

I just read:

RASL – I’m still interested in the story but not blown away by it so far.

Acme Novelty Library #18 – Even though it was still depressing, I actually enjoyed the issue! Though I’m always undecided as to whether I should read another issue (several months pass…Maybe NOW I’ll like it…reads issue…several months pass…Maybe NOW I’ll like it…, etc.). I just really, really want to understand why some people LOVE it so much. Maybe I just don’t know enough about art.

Creepy Archives – I expected to enjoy this much more but found it mostly unsatisfying. Loved the art, but the short story/twist ending format didn’t work for me. Anthologies are always so uneven.

Herbie Archives and Zot await me at the library.

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 01:31:11 +0000

I bought Journey issue #6 and later in 4/$1 bins a little after the series ended, and caught-up from the beginning with the first Fantagraphics reprint. Even then, I knew it was a crime how little the market supported it the first time around. For those of you about to read the showdown between MacAlistaire and the wolf, you’re in for a real treat.

Speaking of crimes, I also think it’s a crime how little credit Sirens of Titans gets for how much Watchmen was built on it. The other-wordly invasion staged to unite the earth, and the invulnerable demi-god who can see the future but is still helpless to alter it. You take those away from Watchmen, and you don’t have Watchmen anymore.

By: Andrew Brown

Andrew Brown — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:38:02 +0000

I just finished reading the last Iron Man trade by the Knauf’s, and I gotta say, that was all kinds of badass! I wish someone had told me how awesome that book was when it was coming out. I liked it so much that now i want to read the Knauf’s externals, and i didn’t like the Kirby or Gaiman version. Before anyone gets any ideas, I loves me some Kirby, but the externals were a watered down 4th world.

By: Dan Felty

Dan Felty — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:22:58 +0000

I just bought Journey at a show yesterday! I haven’t started it, but I leafed through, and boy, the art is super-Eisner-y. I also got Dan Clowes’ Pussey (pretty funny, definitely worth a read) and Ghost World (so far, so good), some JLI issues (very fun), and some early American Flagg! (haven’t ever read it). I re-read Watchmen, which made me decide not to go see the movie.

I’m reading the Canterbury Tales, and they are as good as one would expect. Getting into the Middle English language is actually pretty fascinating and well worth the difficulty. I was inspired to check it out by reading Shakespeare, recognizing that it would be an important source material, and by reading David Crystal’s excellent works on English language.

I’m also reading through all of Vonnegut’s work; I just reserved The Sirens of Titan from the library. I finished Mother Night. It was good, but a little non-descript.

By: Lauren Katzive

Lauren Katzive — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 00:12:10 +0000

I am currently reading a nonfiction book called Everything is Miscellaneous about how the old ways of organizing information to make it easy to find no longer applies to the internet – there is a new way of categorizing data that lets you put it into as many categories as you want.

I am going to read Outliers next.

By: Ian A.

Ian A. — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 23:30:01 +0000

Finished up Chopper: Song of the Surfer from 2000AD this morning. Darkminds: Macropolis is next on the pile. I'll start that either tonight or tomorrow. Looking forward to seeing how Jo Chen handles interiors after becoming so accustomed to seeing her solely on cover duties. Then, it's onto a trio of Morrison-era Doom Patrol trades (volumes 3 through 5).